A December Rock N' Roll Wonderland

FM 94/9's Tim Pyles guides you through December's live music festivities

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Merry Christmahanakwanzaka to all and I hope you get everything you want or need. All I need is a good show, a cool beverage and a lot of fans for the band. It’s fun to be a fan of a band -- it’s not like your favorite football team that lets you down. Bands rarely let you down. Sure, it happens, but they usually come to rock because the show must always go on! Here are some shows I'm liking for the month and I will make it to a bunch of them, but not all. Party on, folks.

Dec. 2 at the Casbah: Grizzly Business, Spero and Shane Hall & the Diabolicals rock the Casbah. I’m partial to this show, since I booked it and it’s Anti-Monday League.

Dec. 21 at the Belly Up: San Diego acid jazz legends the Greyboy Allstars play a hometown show!

Dec. 22 at the Casbah: El Vez and Rosie Flores bring their MEXMAS Show to the Casbah. It’s gonna be a brown Christmas.

Take a few nights off…

Dec. 26 at the Belly Up: The Growlers are beachy garage rock from Costa Mesa, with the Abigails and Mystic Braves opening.

Dec. 27 at Soda Bar: Mrs. Magician, Census and The Rosalyns. The Swami approves of this show.

Dec. 28 at Soda Bar: Come say goodbye to Cuckoo Chaos, as it's, sadly, their last show. With Snuffaluffagus and the Most Hi.

Take a couple more nights off, you deserve it and you need to save up some energy for New Years Eve!

Dec. 31 at Soda Bar: This NYE party features the return of a local favorite that people have been begging for: Scarlet Symphony. Zodiac Death Valley and Hills Like Elephants open.

I’m sure you will have lots of choices for New Years Eve, but my picks are above. Whatever you do when you go out this holiday season, make sure to use a cab or a service like Uber to get home safely, as we'd like you to be with us for the long haul. Thank you for reading, listening to the Local 94/9 and supporting live music around San Diego -- Happy Holidays to you all!

Tim Pyles, a longtime local who grew up in La Jolla, is the unofficial mayor of local music who hosts The Local 94/9 via FM94/9 every Sunday from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. He also books local acts at the Casbah, hosts the weekly Anti-Monday League, books/hosts the monthly Maryjane's Underground at the House Of Blues and is an entertainment writer for Pacific San Diego Magazine. Check out his website thelocalpyle.com and and follow him on Twitter @thelocalpyle. You can reach him directly here pyleste@yahoo.com